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• 😎Federal Agencies use AI to help public

• 🕵️‍♂️AMD considers making a special AI chip for China

• 🕵🏻‍♀️Only 30% of enterprises are ready to adopt Gen AI

• 🤩 13 amazing AI tools you might not have heard of

All this and more - Let's dive in!

👩‍🍳What’s cooking in the newsroom

AI helps Federal Agencies speed up Freedom of Information Act requests

🤖News - Three federal agencies - the Justice Department, State Department, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - are, reportedly, using AI to manage large numbers of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

The FOIA is a law that grants people the right to request access to records from federal agencies. Any record from documents, emails, photographs, videos, and audio recordings can be requested.

👺What are the benefits of using AI for FOIA requests?

• AI can automatically search through massive document datasets to find relevant information, saving agencies valuable time and resources.

• The technology can be used to generate summaries of documents, making it easier for analysts to review them. This can also help to reduce the amount of time that it takes to process FOIA requests.

However, some experts are worried that FOIA officers may become overly reliant on artificial intelligence and allow it to make too many important decisions about whether or not documents are legally releasable.

AMD to make special AI chip for China to avoid US restrictions

🤶News - Top AI chipmaker AMD CEO Lisa Su, on Tuesday, revealed the company is considering developing an AI chip specifically for the Chinese market to comply with US export restrictions.

👩🏻‍🎓What’s more? AMD is also ramping up production of its MI300 chip, which it sees as a competitor to Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs) used for AI training. Nvidia currently dominates the market, but AMD is hoping to challenge it with its latest chip.

The company expects the chip to help it achieve 50% growth in the second half of the year, compared to the first half.

🦸‍♀️Why China’s market is important for AMD though?

• AI is a major growth driver for the semiconductor industry, and China is a leader in AI research and development. AMD wants to be a major player in the AI market, and China is a key market for AMD to achieve this goal.

• Furthermore, AMD has a long history of doing business in China, and it has a strong relationship with Chinese customers and partners. AMD sees China as a strategic market for its future growth.

Executives face pressure to adopt GenAI, but many are not ready, survey shows

👩🏻‍🍳News - A new survey by IDC (a marketing intelligence firm) has found that executives at large enterprises across the globe are facing immense pressures around adopting generative artificial intelligence.

The survey, which polled 900 global executives, found that nearly 80% of respondents had a lot of faith in GenAI's potential to be used in their company's future products and operations.

👨🏼‍🏫 What were the key findings?

• The survey discovered that there is a lack of skills in the field of generative AI. Only 30% of respondents said they are currently equipped or ready to use GenAI, and only 42% are confident that they will have the necessary skills in 6 to 12 months.

• Despite the challenges of a skills gap and concerns about bias and disinformation, the survey revealed that pressure to adopt GenAI is mounting. Nearly two-thirds (56%) of respondents reported feeling "high" or "significant" pressure to leverage GenAI within their organization within the next 6 to 12 months.

👩🏼‍💻What else is happening?

• US military targets deepfakes, misinformation with AI-powered tool

• UK spy agencies seek to relax laws on AI data use

• Unregulated AI will worsen inequality, warns Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz

• YouTube experiments with AI auto-generated video summaries

• Uber is developing an AI-powered chatbot to integrate into app

• Microsoft strikes partnership with Duke Health to advance AI in medicine

• Worldcoin launch sparks debate over data privacy and future of AI

🦹🏼AI-based games

• The Last of Us - It is a third-person perspective survival thriller game, set in a post-apocalyptic world. It follows the story of the main characters, Joel and Ellie, as they navigate through dangerous environments, combat hostile enemies and try to survive.

• Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - An open-world adventure where you play as Link, a young warrior who explores the kingdom of Hyrule. AI controls the behavior of the game's enemies, making them react to Link's actions in a realistic way.

• Stockfish - It is an open-source chess game where players face off against an AI opponent. The game features one of the most powerful AI systems, making defeating it a rare accomplishment achieved by only a select few.

 😵Discover mind-blowing AI tools

1. DocUp - A SaaS service that uses AI to instantly answer customer questions based on documentation

2. SlideSpeak - Allows users to upload PowerPoint files and interact with them through a chat interface

3. BeeBeeAI - An AI-powered platform that makes financial reports and earnings calls easy to understand

4. Altos - Offers a platform for ad agencies to automate ad creation, tracking, and management

5. Face26 - Helps to improve, enhance and fix the quality of your photos in just one click

6. YooHoo - Allows users to create personalized greeting cards using AI technology

7. Xinva - An AI-powered designer that transforms simple text prompts into stunning visuals for t-shirts

8. UiMagic - An AI-based design tool that generates visually stunning landing pages and websites from written text

9. Sloped - A tool that helps users turn their data queries into shareable and easy-to-read dashboards

10. Lingosync - Enables businesses to broaden their global reach by translating videos into over 40 languages

11. Tammy AI - Offers AI-powered summarization features for both text and video content

12. Clerk.io - An AI-driven platform that boosts sales and enhances the customer journey through personalized site searches

13. EVITA.ai - A personal singing coach that offers comprehensive vocal training

👲🏼Historic moments

• 1961: The first industrial robot known as Unimate, which was produced by the American engineer George Devol, began working on an assembly line at General Motors in New Jersey. There, it was tasked with transporting die casings and welding parts onto cars, as these tasks were considered too dangerous for human workers.

• 1965: Carl Djerassi, an Austrian-American chemist, novelist, and playwright, created one of the earliest AI programs called DENDRAL. This program had the remarkable ability to autonomously discover previously unknown forms of medications.

• 1988: Rollo Carpenter, a computer programmer, created the chatbot Jabberwacky. The chatbot was designed to engage humans in interesting, entertaining and humorous conversations.